tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27946614.post7567046817979933562..comments2024-03-07T14:43:21.888-08:00Comments on Whatever I want to write about: It’s the Teaching, Stupid! Retire already!Sriram Khéhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06907731254833435446noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27946614.post-46497985127955524292014-11-16T08:36:19.517-08:002014-11-16T08:36:19.517-08:00Oh, come on, awesome research work is done at the ...Oh, come on, awesome research work is done at the Harvards of the world. We don't want to get carried away when we criticize research. <br />(though, I agree that business schools anywhere are crappy ... hehehe ...)<br /><br />The senior-citizen faculty issue is one serious problem ... but, of course, we can't even talk about it--not just me, but anybody, because it will be lawsuits galore the moment one even whispers ...Sriram Khéhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06724218458246880137noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27946614.post-43660527595152050012014-11-15T21:17:04.426-08:002014-11-15T21:17:04.426-08:00Yeah, both these issues have always struck me when...Yeah, both these issues have always struck me when thinking of academia. The obsession with research, often obscure, incomprehensible to most mortals and read by fewer than 10 people, beggars belief. Even the Harvards of the world , I submit, produce mostly useless stuff. At least in business, which I know a bit, Ivy League research output, is in the majority either stating the blindingly obvious or producing useless claptrap. <br /><br />As for the retirement issue, this is largely an American one because of your mania for tenure. Thankfully in India, we have a retirement age for Profs and therefore universities don;t resemble geriatric ward.Rameshhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11782192840421019943noreply@blogger.com